Hello, everyone and welcome back to Parked Car Convos.

I'm Maddie Mitchell and I'm your host today and always because, well, quite frankly,

this is literally my podcast. So who else is going to host it

happy freaking monday i hope your week is off to a fabulous start i hope you're thinking like wow

this week is going to kick some ass and also i'm going to kick some ass this week i hope that's

kind of what your thought process is today maybe this will be the best week of life. I don't think that's asking for too much from the universe personally. I'm really excited for this week's episode. It is a travel horror stories episode. Thank you so much to everyone who submitted stories because I had so much fun reading through all of them, honestly. I've done a travel horror stories

episode before, but I had gotten all of the stories from Reddit. So this was so much more fun to

read the stories from you guys. But without further ado, let's jump into peak and valley of the week.

My peak of the week actually is currently, is currently right now

in this present moment. I'm sitting with my legs wrapped up in the coziest blanket in the world.

I was just drinking a really, really good coffee, which actually ties into my valley of the week.

And I have a Christmas

candle going next to me. It is just like peak coziness here. Um, I have been really embracing the

the coziness, except I will say that there's a few things that I kind of forgot about when it comes to

the cozy season that I hate. And first up, in case you were wondering,

I am going to walk you through all of them. First thing that I forgot about that I hate is waking up

in the morning. I could stop there. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I wake up in the morning and everything

around me is freezing. Like the second I step out of bed,

it is freezing. My whole house is freezing. It's freezing outside. It's just like everything is cold.

And that makes me just want to lay in my bed because that is the only thing that is warm.

And so it's extremely hard to pry myself from my bed when that is my only source of warmth.

Like, why would I leave?

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